Verb forms used with kudasai

[Mike Cash]

5/5

Was it supposed to be difficult or something?

 

[Glenn]

If it was, for who was it supposed to be difficult?

 

[Glenn]

Oh, by the way, by 満点 I meant 15/15, not 5/5. There are two more pages of questions.

 

[Elizabeth]

満点 I speak it haltingly but I know the terms quite well.

すごいですね。Nice gaijin さんは、かなり敬語が使いこなせる仕事の種類をしていますか？
私にとっては、日本で実際就職するまであいまいな敬語の使い方をしても OK だとおもいます。

ちょっと変な話し方が、成しかけられても失礼とは思わないでしょう。

 

[euske]

やべえ、1問間違えちゃったよ。
「尊敬語」と「謙譲語」の漢字が区別しにくいのが悪いんだ。

 

[Jagotaro]

I think of 送りください as more formal and polite since that is the language it is normally embedded in, but I've never specifically asked so it could be something quite different.

Hey, Elizabeth.

It seems that you are all having lots of fun with this subject.
I never really studied 敬語 but got somewhat used to hearing it
while living here in Japan. Every morning I stop at the local
セブンエレブン on my way to the office. When I finish paying
at the register and head for the door, it's always the same
phrases. ありがとうございました。またお越し下さい。

Polite - - - - - - - - - - Honorific
suwatte kudasai - - o-suwari kudasai
okutte kudasai - - o-kuri kudasai

Two things I'd suggest to keep in mind. All verbs do not fit in here because in many cases when we change from polite to honorific we must change verbs, as you can see in Glenn's and undrentide's lists.

The other is -- as far as I know, the honorific form always requires the
honorific "o" prefix. So you can make a pattern to form the honorific --
お + (verb in i- form) + ください。

The easiest way to remember the i- form of the verb is -- think of the
ます form of the verb after you drop the ます。 Example: すわり-ます.

Hey, you guys are pretty sharp. I can remember when I first started studying Japanese -- I was pretty much alone. Now you have plenty of
company. Great.

がんばって下さい。 ジャゴタロ